Wednesday, 17 May 2017

The
Awesome Egyptians gives you some awful information about phabulous Pharaohs and
poverty-stricken peasants – who lived an awesome 5,000 years ago!

Want
to know:

·Which king had the worst blackheads?

·Why some kings had to wear false beards?

·Why the peasants were revolting?

Read
on to find some foul facts about death and decay, revolting recipes for
3,000-yeear-old sweets, how to make a mean mummy, and some awful Egyptian
arithmetic.’

This is a book on Egyptian History from the
Horrible Histories Series from Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite. The book is
filled with interesting facts, funny illustrations and anecdotes, primarily
intended for school children.

The book covers nearly every popular aspect
of Ancient Egypt such as how life depended on the river Nile, the pyramids,
certain myth busting on pyramids (it was not necessarily a grave!), famous
pharaohs, the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, the rituals, about mummies
and finally, certain instructions on creating ancient Egyptian devices and
cuisine.

The book had some really good
illustrations, mixed with a lot of humour. Additionally, I also liked the fact
that the book covered most of aspects of Egypt that we might have heard of but
not necessarily know about. The book also gave the right focus on not just the aristocracy, but also the lifestyle of the common people in Ancient Egypt. This book communicated history in a very
interesting manner, especially considering the target audience of the book and
making a page turner out of a topic like history is quite an achievement in
itself.

The only aspect I felt was that the
proportion of jokes in the book could have been reduced a little, beyond a
point, it just got repetitive and of course, diluted the content of the book
considering there are only 126 pages in total.

I read this book seven years ago (when I
was in school) and enjoyed reading it then, and even today, my enjoyment was
not any less and it satisfied every expectation that I normally have from a
Horrible Histories book. On the whole, I would award the book a rating of seven
on ten.